Disaster drills in Japan

Disaster drills in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers control traffic in the Ginza shopping district in central Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2011, in a disaster drill on the assumption that traffic lights have gone out due to a power outage. Annual emergency drills were held the same day across Japan in commemoration of the Great Kanto Earthquake on Sept. 1, 1923. (Kyodo)

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